Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the Harvard Club of New York will lend its support to the club when they hold their Gotham showing in the auditorium of Hunter College from December 26 to 29. The graduate backers will help to arrange living quarters for the cast, as well as helping with ticket sales and advertising...
Justice in Time. Paris' famed Cirque d'Hiver was persuaded to lend its ring and five lions-Pasha, Prince, Romeo, Pigalle and Hamed-for the legal demonstration. "Never turn your back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...swept the city with a wave of reform that left his critics gasping. He built schools, playgrounds and beaches; he hired new doctors for the city hospital; he extended the transit systems and pulled down old elevated lines, making thousands of jobs. When the banks in Boston refused to lend him money for this spending spree, he bolted traditions and borrowed from banks all over the country. Those were the days when newspaper editorials hailed him as the first great leader to emerge from the Boston Irish...
...cocktail," their feet up on the backs of chairs, talking business, business, business, and spitting, spitting, spitting, while the women sat in a room apart and tittled and tattled by the hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used, in 1949, by a descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, addressing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons...
Until this year, television's friends & foes had generally agreed that radio's soap operas would not lend themselves successfully to the TV screen. As is often the case with expert guessers on television, they were wrong. Headed by the successful The Goldbergs, soap operas will surely widen their TV beachhead this autumn. But there are snags, nevertheless, for both soap operas and other radio serials. Some of the shows promised or projected, and their problems...